Later, Sean Dowdell and Bennington moved on to form a newīand, Grey Daze, a post-grunge band from Phoenix, Arizona. They released an eponymous three-track cassette in 1993. He went on to say that" joiningĪ band where his voice mattered more really helped".īennington’s first began singing with band called Sean Dowdell and His Friends. In an interview, he said "I was knocked around like a rag doll at school for being skinny and looking different".
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Money for cocaine and crystal meth before starting his career as a professional musician.īennington was physically bullied in high school. Himself.At the age of seventeen, he moved in with his mother and was banned from leaving the house when his mother discovered his drug activity.He worked at a Burger King restaurant and used his Himself, he drew pictures and wrote poetry and songs.Later, he revealed the abuser's identity to his father but Bennington chose not to continue the case after he realized the abuser was a victim Want people to think he was gay or lying and the abuse continued until age thirteen.The abuse and situation at home affected him so much that he felt the urge to kill and run away.To comfort His drug addiction, and would go on to denounce drug use in future interviews.During a Linkin Park tour, he started heavily drinking but claimed to have quit in 2011 noting "I just don't want toīe that person anymore".In an interview, Bennington revealed that he suffered sexual abuse from an older male friend when he was seven years old.He was afraid to ask for help because he did not Years old and his father gained custody of him.As a result of the divorce, Bennington started abusing marijuana, alcohol, opium, cocaine, methamphetamine and LSD.Bennington eventually overcame Bennington's parents divorced when he was eleven In music at a young age, citing Depeche Mode and Stone Temple Pilots as early insapirations and dreamed of becoming a member of Depeche Mode. Bennington has been ranked in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader (#46).Ĭhester Bennington was born on March 20, 1976, in Phoenix, Arizona, to a nurse and a Phoenix police detective who worked with child sex abuse cases and took double shifts.Bennington took interest He worked on new material with Stone Temple Pilots in 2013 to release theĮP High Rise on Octovia their own record label, Play Pen LLC. The band's debut album, Out of Ashes was released on October 13, 2009. Bennington formed his ownīand, Dead by Sunrise as a side-project in 2005. Minutes to Midnight, A Thousand Suns, Living Things, and The Hunting Party, released in 2003, 2007, 2010, 2012, and 2014 respectively, continued the band's success. The album was certifiedĭiamond by the RIAA in 2005, making it the best-selling debut album of the decade, as well as one of the few albums to ever hit that many sales.Linkin Park's following studio albums, Meteora, He is also the current lead vocalist for Stone Temple Pilots and rock cover band Bucket of Weenies.īennington became known as a vocalist with Linkin Park's debut album, Hybrid Theory, in 2000, which was a massive commercial success. He was originally the lead vocalist for Sean Dowdell And His Friends? and Greyĭaze. He is best known as the lead vocalist of rock bands Linkin Park and Dead by Sunrise. He is survived by two children, Noah and Lucy, from his marriage to Mary Forsberg, and his current wife, Jamie Wachtel, whom he wed in 2013.Chester Charles Bennington (born Ma– July 20, 2017) is an American musician, His most recent release with the Wildabouts was released earlier this year. During his career he also released four solo albums. He later became the frontman of Velvet Revolver which featured former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, as well as Dave Kushner. Weiland rose to fame in the early 1990s as the lead singer of the band Stone Temple Pilots. The band were due to perform at the Medina Entertainment Center in Medina, Minnesota on Thursday night. Further details of his death are yet to be released. The news was confirmed to the magazine by Weiland's manager.Īccording to an official Instagram post from Weiland's account, the singer passed away Thursday in his sleep on a tour bus in Bloomington, Minnesota, while touring with his current group the Wildabouts. Scott Weiland, lead singer of US bands Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver has died aged 48, reports Rolling Stone.
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